Forum down every night around 2 to 3 am CDT

[davethewave2 20]

Well it was down again this morning at 9:30, usual 503 error.

[ginger1 3]

Down here as well,( ireland) .Also this site is slow to respond when changing pages,may be where i live so far away!!!!

 

Richard Druce.

[Lukas_Mathijsen 41]

Jep, had some downtime this morning as well (the Netherlands)

[davethewave2 20]

903 and its running slow.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/c6NoQh/forum.avsim.net

[davethewave2 20]

And then it went down as usual.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/d5xfyh/forum.avsim.net

 

Interestingly it looks like someone has tinkered with the server and increased the timeout value from 30 to 45 seconds before serving a 503 error. This is not going to fix the problem Tom!!!!

[ckyliu 1,749]

I've been getting the 503 issue randomly for many weeks now, but generally around 0800-1000 GMT.

[antonmorse 9]

Same here, have had this problem for over a month around 8am to 9am GMT so I no longer try to access the site at that time. Every other site is fine.

AVSIM also struggles at other times of day when every other site I visit is fine. Just assumed it was caused by heavy traffic.

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

I'm so glad I don't get up until 10.30am! :smile:

[davethewave2 20]

Down again this morning

 

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cSzQmM/forum.avsim.net

 

Timeout back to 30 seconds.

[pete_auau 1,158]

I'm so glad I don't get up until 10.30am! :smile:

Lol  glad  you can, but for some users  this maybe the only time they are able  to get on the forum, and if  they cant  due to the error 503  all the time makes things difficult

[Dicko 3]

Down at 0925 UTC

 

 

[Ron Attwood 3,464]

Lol  glad  you can, but for some users  this maybe the only time they are able  to get on the forum, and if  they cant  due to the error 503  all the time makes things difficult

What? You mean there are people out there without a Tapatalk facility?!

[tf51d 284]

Hmm, I always got a 503 at 4-5AM EDT (Before timezone change) too! Always assumed it was regular nightly site maintenance, so never questioned it.

[pete_auau 1,158]

What? You mean there are people out there without a Tapatalk facility?!

Yes strangely  there are.

[davethewave2 20]

 

Been away for a few days but I see nothing has changed, still getting 503 errors this morning.

 

I notice static resources are still served within 500 ms during these periods so its something in the main html page that's causing it. I notice that even when the site is working it takes 2 seconds to return the first page, so something is badly optimised here. I can think of one of two things, its a poorly implimented database for the forum or its code running to trap spammers/dossers.

 

I would hope that someone in Avsim has the ability to work out what's happening but after almost 2 weeks I'm begging to suspect that maybe they don't